#6 Command line options

[Zach Hoeken]

I'm not entirely sure how java operates in command line mode, but it would be very nice to have some command line programs that we could use to interface with the program.

some useful things would be:

* ability to generate toolpaths from a 3d file
eg: reprap --generate-toolpath output.xml --input object.stl

* ability to print objects from the command line
eg: reprap --print object.stl

* ability to get various stats about an object from the command line (volume, estimated print time, etc)
eg: reprap --object-info object.stl

[Jonathan Marsden]

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The --print one probably needs a --xoffset and --yoffset so you can specify where on the bed to build it. Building at (0,0) is probably not always desirable.

Further, you'll often want to print multiple small objects in one run (I think!). So being able to repeat that set of 3 parameters as many times as you want would be good.

Since that could get cumbersome, you'd really also want to be able to store the parameter list in a file, and say --print --file somefile.txt instead, where the somefile.txt is a list of .stl files and offsets, such as

file1.stl 100 100
file2.stl 150 200
file3.stl 225 225

or whatever.

Final thought: should this batch printing approach be able to re-orient the stl object too?

Jonathan